Last Week Around the -ISTs
Yeasayer's Anand Wilder produced this album, and it looks as though Suckers have taken a queue from them and a host of other NYC (well, Brooklyn) technicolor neo-psych bands upon first glance. Difficult MySpace page, glitter and masks, a song that seems to be about dancing, and an unquenchable thirst for purple throw up dozens of red flags for most. All that being said (and kicked right out the way), the songs on this EP are good, or at least quite different from what one might imagine based on the aforementioned flags. There is a certain proximity between the vocalist's grandiosity and Yeasayer or even Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, but to compare it -- and the eerie synths, deceptively simple base tracks, even the production itself -- to them is unfair. Suckers are writing songs out of the Bowie and Ferry book; calling on late '70s and early '80s new wave in a deliciously modern way. The sample track is "It Keeps Your Body Movin'", a slow starting Bunnymen jaunt that dabbles in some Wolf Parade territory, but like the rest of the brief EP, hones in on what we hope will be the future of paisley coated Brooklyn retro-psych.
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